stafford knot

darben

Well-Known Forumite

• Nov 20, 2015

• #21

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34857022

Anyone else notice how much the fertility worm picture in the news today looks like the Staffordshire knot?

 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords

• Nov 20, 2015

• #22

Stafford Knot

 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.

• Nov 20, 2015

• #23

My first thought when I saw it this morning.

 

Withnail

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• Nov 20, 2015

• #24

The Worm Unites.

 

darben

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• Nov 20, 2015

• #25

Withnail said:

The Worm Unites.

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I actually sadly thought about the 'worm' carvings in st chads and wondered if there was a link.

 

Ecker

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• Nov 20, 2015

• #26

Is this what you were referring to Darben? I could see how this could
develop into The Knot given several centuries. The entity in the carving
is known as: "Orm".

 

Withnail

Well-Known Forumite

• Nov 20, 2015

• #27

A pair of Norse Jormungand?

Ecker said:

The entity in the carving
is known as: "Orm".

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ORM VOCATUR QUI ME CONDIDIT

Jormungand - a play on words perhaps?

 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.

• Nov 20, 2015

• #28

Or from the Latin vermis - although lumbricus would be used for an earthworm..?

 

dr watson

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• Nov 20, 2015

• #29

Gramaisc said:

Or from the Latin vermis - although lumbricus would be used for an earthworm..?

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Ignotum per ignotius

 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.

• Nov 20, 2015

• #30

I hear that there's a great big one in Llandudno.

 

Withnail

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• Nov 20, 2015

• #31

Gramaisc said:

Or from the Latin vermis...

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Turns out that 'Orm' is a Nordic name meaning 'snake','serpent' or 'dragon'.

According to the delightfully unexpected 'the Orme web site', the ORM of the condiditing of St. Chad's was one Orme of Darlaston - aka the Orm of Ormskirk.

Given that St. Chad's is Orms kirk, we could rename it as Ormskirk to lure unsuspecting SatNav users into the centre of Stafford to boost Christmas event numbers.

 

Noah

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• Nov 21, 2015

• #32

Withnail said:

Given that St. Chad's is Orms kirk, we could rename it as Ormskirk to lure unsuspecting SatNav users into the centre of Stafford to boost Christmas event numbers.

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Have you ever been to Ormskirk?

 

Withnail

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• Nov 21, 2015

• #33

I have not.

I was once very close to Tarragona - even saw the sign saying *whatever the word for 'twinned' is in 'Spanish' (more likely 'Catalonian') with Stafford* and probably could have wangled a day off to actually go there - but decided instead to 'pitch in'.

It has remained to this day one of my more unusual regrets.

 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.

• Nov 21, 2015

• #34

Withnail said:

'Spanish' (more likely 'Catalonian')

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One of the twin-town flags outside the station used to be a Catalan flag, red & yellow multi-stripes, and I promised to get a picture of it for a Catalan friend who was surprised that it should be flown here - but, by the time I went to photograph it, it had been replaced by a Spanish one,